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Raconteur, bon-vivant, man-about-town. Book nerd.

Mostly just keeping track of what I've been reading for myself, but always interested in what like-minded souls enjoy when I stumble across their online traces.

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Cormac McCarthy: The Road (Hardcover, 2006, Alfred A. Knopf) 4 stars

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.

A father and his son …

Review of 'The Road' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I've read this book some dozen times through. It's the very first book I have ever read that as soon as I finished reading it the first time, I flipped back to page one.

I know the writing style isn't for everyone, in many ways it's more like long-form free verse than "proper fiction". That said, if it resonates with you, it will really resonate with you because it has been set free from some of the formalist constraints that allow us to imagine we are simply reading a story and not immersed in a vision.

Post-apocalyptic scenarios are very personally meaningful to me for a variety of reasons, including being raised by a hippie survivalist through the 80s dream of nuclear holocaust, and the resulting recurring nightmares throughout my entire life I learned to channel into lucid dreaming. The apocalypse is my personal inner playground. I can't ever change …